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Theatrical & Media Make-up Courses

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Getting Ahead

Theatrical & Media Make-up Courses at South Downs Campus

We are looking forward to welcoming you to HSDC South Downs. We have set some activities to help you before you start your course. They will help you practice creating moulage. You will need to research and carry out special effect make-up.

Did you know? Kryolan is doing live video talks and demonstrations on Instagram. This will help you when you join our course, as we use their professional products.

students applying theatrical makeup on a fellow student

For this task, you need to research products that are found at home and can be used on the skin to create special effects make-up. 

Draw a plan of where you are going to apply your wound (please apply it on a limb, not your face).

You will then need to carry out your special effects make-up on yourself and send photos of your work to: dawn.richardson@hsdc.ac.uk. Please also upload your work to Facebook or Instagram and tag HSDC, so we can share and comment on your work. This will allow you to see what your future classmates have been up to!

Write a list of the products, tools and equipment you have used and justify why you used them and state whether they created the effect you wanted.

*This is a representation of your learning space and may not be the exact room you will be using

Resources

Meet your Lecturers

  • Dawn Richardson, Sally-Ann Brooks, and Donna Clifford

We look forward to seeing you soon!

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